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most cited"Kelly is a Warm Person, Joseph is a Role Model": Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Reference Letters

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56 papers

cs.CL2026

Tev: Scaling Long-Horizon Agentic Environments with Dense Progress Rewards

Wenbo Hu, Shraman Pramanick, Krishna Kumar Singh +3

Long-horizon agents have drawn growing attention for their ability to work autonomously -- from hours to days -- on economically valuable tasks, a capability essential to automated…

cs.AI2026

Overwhelmed by Choice: Studying LLM Decision Making at Scale

Yu-Chi Lin, Aryan Seth, Anshul Aravind +4

Multiple-choice and candidate-selection evaluations are widely used to assess LLM reasoning and decision-making, yet most benchmarks contain relatively small candidate sets. It rem…

cs.CL2026

On Asymmetric Optimization of Reasoning and Perception in Vision-Language Model Post-Training

Xueqing Wu, Yu-Chi Lin, Kai-Wei Chang +1

Post-training has greatly improved reasoning in frontier vision-language models, yet its gains for perception remain comparatively limited, creating a bottleneck for end-to-end vis…

cs.CV2026

OpenVLThinkerV2: A Generalist Multimodal Reasoning Model for Multi-domain Visual Tasks

Wenbo Hu, Xin Chen, Yan Gao-Tian +3

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has emerged as the de facto Reinforcement Learning (RL) objective driving recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models. However…

cs.CL2026

Beyond Facts: Benchmarking Distributional Reading Comprehension in Large Language Models

Pei-Fu Guo, Ya-An Tsai, Chun-Chia Hsu +6

While most reading comprehension benchmarks for LLMs focus on factual information that can be answered by localizing specific textual evidence, many real-world tasks require unders…

cs.AI2026

Learning Structured Reasoning via Tractable Trajectory Control

Po-Nien Kung, Zhen Yang, Jeffrey Luo +7

Large language models can exhibit emergent reasoning behaviors, often manifested as recurring lexical patterns (e.g., "wait," indicating verification). However, complex reasoning t…

cs.CL2025

LiveCLKTBench: Towards Reliable Evaluation of Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer in Multilingual LLMs

Pei-Fu Guo, Yun-Da Tsai, Chun-Chia Hsu +6

Evaluating cross-lingual knowledge transfer in large language models is challenging, as correct answers in a target language may arise either from genuine transfer or from prior ex…

cs.CL2025

BRIEF-Pro: Universal Context Compression with Short-to-Long Synthesis for Fast and Accurate Multi-Hop Reasoning

Jia-Chen Gu, Junyi Zhang, Di Wu +3

As retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tackles complex tasks, increasingly expanded contexts offer richer information, but at the cost of higher latency and increased cognitive lo…

cs.CL2025

DiCoRe: Enhancing Zero-shot Event Detection via Divergent-Convergent LLM Reasoning

Tanmay Parekh, Kartik Mehta, Ninareh Mehrabi +2

Zero-shot Event Detection (ED), the task of identifying event mentions in natural language text without any training data, is critical for document understanding in specialized dom…

cs.CV2025

3DLLM-Mem: Long-Term Spatial-Temporal Memory for Embodied 3D Large Language Model

Wenbo Hu, Yining Hong, Yanjun Wang +7

Humans excel at performing complex tasks by leveraging long-term memory across temporal and spatial experiences. In contrast, current Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to effec…

cs.CV2025

PARTONOMY: Large Multimodal Models with Part-Level Visual Understanding

Ansel Blume, Jeonghwan Kim, Hyeonjeong Ha +7

Real-world objects are composed of distinctive, object-specific parts. Identifying these parts is key to performing fine-grained, compositional reasoning-yet, large multimodal mode…

cs.CL2025

Self-Routing RAG: Binding Selective Retrieval with Knowledge Verbalization

Di Wu, Jia-Chen Gu, Kai-Wei Chang +1

Selective retrieval aims to make retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) more efficient and reliable by skipping retrieval when an LLM's parametric knowledge suffices. Despite promisi…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Enhancing LLM Character-Level Manipulation via Divide and Conquer

Zhen Xiong, Yujun Cai, Bryan Hooi +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, they exhibit notable weak…

cs.CV2025

OpenVLThinker: Complex Vision-Language Reasoning via Iterative SFT-RL Cycles

Yihe Deng, Hritik Bansal, Fan Yin +3

We introduce OpenVLThinker, one of the first open-source large vision-language models (LVLMs) to exhibit sophisticated chain-of-thought reasoning, achieving notable performance gai…

cs.CL2025

CaKE: Circuit-aware Editing Enables Generalizable Knowledge Learners

Yunzhi Yao, Jizhan Fang, Jia-Chen Gu +4

Knowledge Editing (KE) enables the modification of outdated or incorrect information in large language models (LLMs). While existing KE methods can update isolated facts, they ofte…

cs.LG2025

MM-PoisonRAG: Disrupting Multimodal RAG with Local and Global Poisoning Attacks

Hyeonjeong Ha, Qiusi Zhan, Jeonghwan Kim +6

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a common practice in multimodal large language models (MLLM) to enhance factual grounding and reduce hallucination. Yet, its relianc…

cs.CV2025

SYNTHIA: Novel Concept Design with Affordance Composition

Hyeonjeong Ha, Xiaomeng Jin, Jeonghwan Kim +7

Text-to-image (T2I) models enable rapid concept design, making them widely used in AI-driven design. While recent studies focus on generating semantic and stylistic variations of g…

cs.CV2025

Contrastive Visual Data Augmentation

Yu Zhou, Bingxuan Li, Mohan Tang +6

Large multimodal models (LMMs) often struggle to recognize novel concepts, as they rely on pre-trained knowledge and have limited ability to capture subtle visual details. Domain-s…

cs.CV2025

METAL: A Multi-Agent Framework for Chart Generation with Test-Time Scaling

Bingxuan Li, Yiwei Wang, Jiuxiang Gu +2

Chart generation aims to generate code to produce charts satisfying the desired visual properties, e.g., texts, layout, color, and type. It has great potential to empower the autom…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Fact or Guesswork? Evaluating Large Language Models' Medical Knowledge with Structured One-Hop Judgments

Jiaxi Li, Yiwei Wang, Kai Zhang +5

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted in various downstream task domains. However, their abilities to directly recall and apply factual medical knowledge remains un…

cs.CL2024

DRS: Deep Question Reformulation With Structured Output

Zhecheng Li, Yiwei Wang, Bryan Hooi +3

Question answering represents a core capability of large language models (LLMs). However, when individuals encounter unfamiliar knowledge in texts, they often formulate questions t…

cs.CL2024

SPEED++: A Multilingual Event Extraction Framework for Epidemic Prediction and Preparedness

Tanmay Parekh, Jeffrey Kwan, Jiarui Yu +6

Social media is often the first place where communities discuss the latest societal trends. Prior works have utilized this platform to extract epidemic-related information (e.g. in…

cs.CL2024

Control Large Language Models via Divide and Conquer

Bingxuan Li, Yiwei Wang, Tao Meng +2

This paper investigates controllable generation for large language models (LLMs) with prompt-based control, focusing on Lexically Constrained Generation (LCG). We systematically ev…

cs.CL2024

Detecting Machine-Generated Long-Form Content with Latent-Space Variables

Yufei Tian, Zeyu Pan, Nanyun Peng

The increasing capability of large language models (LLMs) to generate fluent long-form texts is presenting new challenges in distinguishing machine-generated outputs from human-wri…